[cups.general] USB printer not showing up

[Matt Hull]

i dont think you need to make the device your self.  and did you check
dmesg ?   might be in /dev/usb/lp0 ?

matt

On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Wim wrote:

> My USB printer is not showing up in the device section, when I want to install it with the web interface.
>
> Some output which might be helpful
> # lpinfo -v
> network socket
> network http
> network ipp
> network lpd
> direct scsi
> serial serial:/dev/ttyS0?baud=115200
> serial serial:/dev/ttyS1?baud=115200
> # lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> usblp                   8096  0
> ..
> # dmesg | tail
> usbcore: registered new driver usblp
> drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
> usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
> drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04E8 pid 0x3236
>
> Cups was compiled manually from "cups-1.2svn-r4629-source.tar.bz2".
>
> I've restarted cups a few times, but that didn't help.
> Does anyone have any idea what could be missing and how I can solve it?
> Anything else I could check? I have a feeling this is going to be something very simple I overlooked, but I have no clue what :/
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any help or hints!
>
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